Papua New Guinea - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Papua New Guinea was 57.35 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.45 in 1977 and a minimum value of 57.35 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 77.32
1961 78.17
1962 79.09
1963 79.96
1964 80.57
1965 80.87
1966 81.33
1967 81.45
1968 81.33
1969 81.14
1970 80.97
1971 81.11
1972 81.20
1973 81.25
1974 81.25
1975 81.20
1976 81.38
1977 81.45
1978 81.44
1979 81.37
1980 81.23
1981 81.25
1982 81.14
1983 80.90
1984 80.52
1985 79.98
1986 79.56
1987 78.93
1988 78.14
1989 77.28
1990 76.37
1991 75.51
1992 74.68
1993 73.86
1994 73.02
1995 72.20
1996 71.65
1997 71.10
1998 70.58
1999 70.07
2000 69.56
2001 69.37
2002 69.06
2003 68.69
2004 68.31
2005 67.98
2006 67.58
2007 67.22
2008 66.82
2009 66.30
2010 65.61
2011 64.98
2012 64.17
2013 63.24
2014 62.30
2015 61.38
2016 60.55
2017 59.75
2018 58.97
2019 58.17
2020 57.35

Development Relevance: Patterns of development in a country are partly determined by the age composition of its population. Different age groups have different impacts on both the environment and on infrastructure needs. Therefore the age structure of a population is useful for analyzing resource use and formulating future policy and planning goals with regards infrastructure and development.

Limitations and Exceptions: Because the five-year age group is the cohort unit and five-year period data are used in the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, interpolations to obtain annual data or single age structure may not reflect actual events or age composition. For more information, see the original source.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Dependency ratios capture variations in the proportions of children, elderly people, and working-age people in the population that imply the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. But dependency ratios show only the age composition of a population, not economic dependency. Some children and elderly people are part of the labor force, and many working-age people are not. Age structure in the World Bank's population estimates is based on the age structure in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population